A disaffected banker gives up his life for a chance to start over—with a new identity and body—in the cult classic sci-fi thriller.Though he possesses all the trappings of success, Antiochus Wilson is completely and utterly bored with his life. But that all changes when he gets a call from a dead friend. Turns out the friend isn't exactly dead. He simply traded in his old life for a new one. And Wilson can do it too. As a Reborn, he can have all the excitement, weal...

When eccentric inventor Dr. Cyrus Browl embarks on a bizarre mission to copy famous paintings in museums around the world, the art world chuckles at his clumsy efforts. But when identical originals of those paintings mysteriously appear, threatening to destroy the value of priceless art collections, the laughter stops. Is Dr. Browl less feeble-minded than he seems? What is the secret behind his elaborate copying contraption? As masterpieces proliferate wildly, the art world joins forces to...

In a near-future, half-flooded world governed by technobureaucracy and ultraconformity, where human contact is abhorrent and passion unheard of, William Fowke already has a reputation as a trouble-maker. And now he insists that the Wall - the engineering marvel that keeps what remains of America's East Coast from being inundated by the Atlantic Ocean - is leaking. Convicted of sedition and 'excluded', Fowke begins a horrific, thrilling odyssey through a nether world of gulags. With the exc...

Five more unforgettable adventures await in Lost Sci-Fi Books 591–595, a collection that spans ancient civilizations, impossible technology, psychological suspense, and the darker corners of human imagination. These classic stories prove that great science fiction never stands still—it constantly surprises.Travel to a forgotten underground kingdom in The Lost Race by Robert E. Howard, where an ancient civilization has survived beyond the reach of h...

New York swelters beneath another brutal August heat wave. Offices stink of sweat, the subways grind packed bodies together, and every rush hour feels like punishment. William endures it all with quiet discipline. Each evening he retreats to his tiny apartment and practices a private system of meditation he believes can cleanse the mind and free the body from the city’s crushing pressure. For twelve years he has prepared himself in solitude, certain that something vast is approaching....

The Hugo and Nebula Award–winning author of The Forever War imagines a future in which most of humanity has abandoned Earth for orbiting man-made habitats.In Worlds, Worlds Apart, and Worlds Enough and Time, Joe Haldeman imagines a near future rife with exhilarating and terrifying possibilities, when hundreds of thousands of human beings have abandoned the Earth's surface to live in man-made ha...

After two decades in space, a man returns to Earth as something new and not completely human, in this novel by the Nebula Award–winning author."Enormously inventive." —Galaxy Science FictionTwenty years ago, Asher Sutton vanished somewhere in the star system 61 Cygni, an inaccessible corner of the universe that humankind has thus far been unable to explore. Now Asher has returned to Earth, having impossibly survived catastrophic damage to his spacecraft. But the star-traveler is not the sa...

An NPR favorite book of 2019Winner of the ALA/YALSA Alex AwardWhen an Earth-like planet is discovered, a team of six teens, along with three veteran astronauts, embark on a twenty-year trip to set up a planet for human colonization—but find that space is more deadly than they ever could have imagined.Have you ever hoped you could leave everything behind?Have you ever dreamt of a better world?Can a d...

Hugo Award Winner: In rural Wisconsin, an ageless hermit welcomes alien visitors—and foresees the end of humanity . . .Enoch Wallace is not like other humans. Living a secluded life in the backwoods of Wisconsin, he carries a nineteenth-century rifle and never seems to age—a fact that has recently caught the attention of prying government eyes. The truth is, Enoch is the last surviving veteran of the American Civil War and, for close to a century, he has operated a...

A bold space-opera adventure starring Captain Kirk and Spock—the film that re-ignited the Star Trek legacy.The galaxy’s ultimate future lies in the hands of James T. Kirk and Mr. Spock… and the command of the USS Enterprise is challenged by one of the most formidable villains in Star Trek history: Khan Noonien Singh. When the deadly Genesis Device falls into the wrong hands, a high-stakes showdown erupts, threatening everything the Federation stands for. K...

From the award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of NOS4A2 and Heart-Shaped Box comes a chilling post-apocalyptic thriller about a worldwide pandemic of spontaneous combustion that threatens to reduce civilization to ashes and a band of improbable heroes who battle to save it, led by one powerful and enigmatic man known as the Fireman.The fireman is coming. Stay cool.No one knows exactly when it began or where it originated. A te...

“Brilliantly conceived and plotted … Read this book. You’ll thank me later.” -- David BaldacciThe first in the international bestselling series!Who is Orphan X?The Nowhere Man is a legendary figure spoken about only in whispers. It’s said that when he’s reached by the truly desperate and deserving, the Nowhere Man can and will do anything to protect and save them. But he’s not merely a legend.“Excellent…A sm...